Lost Roses

By Martha Hall Kelly

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.

"Not only a brilliant historical tale, but a love song to all the ways our friendships carry us through the worst of times."--Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours

It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia: the church with the interior covered in jeweled mosaics, the Rembrandts at the tsar's Winter Palace, the famous ballet.

But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia's imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortune-teller's daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Eliza is doing her part to help the White Russian families find safety as they escape the revolution. But when Sofya's letters suddenly stop coming, she fears the worst for her best friend.

From the turbulent streets of St. Petersburg and aristocratic countryside estates to the avenues of Paris where a society of fallen Russian migr s live to the mansions of Long Island, the lives of Eliza, Sofya, and Varinka will intersect in profound ways. In her newest powerful tale told through female-driven perspectives, Martha Hall Kelly celebrates the unbreakable bonds of women's friendship, especially during the darkest days of history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524796379
• ISBN13: 9781524796372
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good read and very good series

[NOTE: Rating is really across the series rather than a single book in the series.] All three books in The Lilac Girls series are worth the time to read without fear of disappointment or wishing you had spent your time elsewhere. The only thing that I would have changed if I had known is that I would have read them in chronological order rather than the published sequence so I could've moved through time and experience with the characters. That would make this series even better!

I loved it

I really enjoyed Lilac Girls and Lost Roses. I recommend to anyone.